A small North Carolina town is shocked when popular high school baseball coach Ron Michaels is killed in his sleep. The killer turns out to be his wife Bridget a successful career woman who is widely loved and respected in the community. Bridget insists that she shot her husband by accident, and the police are willing to believe her story until members of Ron's family, joined with the relatives of Bridget's first husband, raise a number of disturbing questions. Ultimately it is revealed that Bridget has been leading a double life, posing as a pillar of the community while mounting huge debts to maintain her sumptuous lifestyle and it is determined that Bridget killed her first husband, who died under similar circumstances as the hapless Ron Michaels.